Affective polarization, or feeling incapable of amicable disagreement with those whose views differ from your own, and feeling personally threatened by the difference,stifles the healthy, robust, good-natured debate that should be at the heart of higher education and functional democracy. Let’s model a better way here.
“… A large majority of students remain in-state for college, primarily for financial reasons, so one driver of this change is likely growing regional polarization. That would help explain why, for example, so many students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, are liberal while the student body at Auburn University in Alabama is more conservative. But the researchers found that a significant additional factor was the students’ preference for attending college with politically similar peers — and their even stronger desire not to go to school with people on the other side of the political divide...”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/opinion/college-politics-woke-polarization.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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